Friday, April 27, 2007

Indian nights - with a detour to Japan

Weekend - finally! It's been scorching here in Belgium, and not being able to sleep at night makes me a bit grumpy, which is not being helped by the fact that I'd have lots of things to do and not enough energy or time to manage them. A friend of mine is visiting and we were just making plans for the weekend - if we're to manage them all, the whole weekend will be like a military operation and there won't be much tolerance for surprises which would disturb the timetable.

Tonight, however, it was time to relax a bit. Entertaining the guest, I haven't had time for knitting but I've managed to give the spindle a whirl every now and then. Just received a package of hand dyed lot of wool and sat outside on the terrace until it was too dark to do anything. Originally I had a much darker violet base with some lilac and fuchsia shades running through it, and the whole colour combination made me think of India. The batch I received later is much lighter, and now I'm trying to decide whether I should blend and card all the shades together or make two different threads and see what happens when they're plied together. We'll see which option will win.

So, nothing much is happening around here. The guest should leave next week, if the crew of Scandinavian Airlines feels like flying then. I'll take a couple of days off and we might make a road trip somewhere, so there won't be a Sunday update this week. This piece of information was mainly aimed at Bobbi who hosts our group of SP10 - and I confirm that I haven't received anything from my secret pal yet, apart from one e-mail. But, like I wrote in someone else's blog, I'm not too worried yet - things happen in life and we still have two months to go.

Oh, just one more thing. There's a brand new Yahoo group which is aimed at knitters interested in Japanese knitting patterns and books. In just two days it has attracted 400 people to join. If you're interested, here we are: Japanese knitting

About Me

Knitting has come to me quite naturally. Our whole family does something with their hands (knitting, crocheting, cross stitching), even my father has knitted himself mittens when he was only a boy. At the moment I'm really lucky, living in Central Europe and having a relatively easy access to German, French and British yarns. And that shows in my flat. I really enjoy all the different colours and the structures of the yarns and am always trying some new stuff, techniques, patterns. And this may sound like a cliché, but for me knitting is a journey, you never know what you're going to encounter on the way. Love the experience; whether I finish a garment or not is irrelevant.